Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-21
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Leading Stockmen Back from Greer
County and the Territory Report
Cattle to be Good.
What Great Stock Yards Would Do Cor Fort
WORKMAN Immense Quantity of Wool
an the Way to Boston.
Butchers were paying pc for good beef
cattle yesterday.
J. Bedford, prominent cattle man OF
Baylor county, was in Fort Worth yes
terdsy, and says this will be great year
for fat cattle,
Doc Day, who has L, 900 hnad of cattle
in Greer county and Indian Territory, has
returned to Fort Worth, and reports cat
lie in splendid condition.
Three trains Of cattle came in on the
Texas and Pacific last night and were
unloaded at the stock yards. The cattle
are destined for Territory range.
Three carloads of horses were sold
here yesterday to men in Missouri and
Iowa. There are several buyers in the
city who will probably trade to-day.
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The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe de-
livered sixty carloads Of cattle st Red
Rock, l. T., yesterday, loaded at Fort
WORTH the cattle being taken through at
the rate of twenty-five miles an hour.
The Atchison-GuH proposes to fix twenty
miles per hour on cattle transportation as
the slowest.
Colonel Burk Burnett, accompanied by
sam Glasgow and Eph Harold, all
wealthy Cattlemen .!who make Fort Worth
their homes, returned, yesterday, from
the Indian Territory, where they have
spent the last eleven days on Colonel
Burnett's ranch. The trio looked
SIS hearty and healthy as
cowboys. and Colonel Burnett was
should interview "Sam Glasgow before
he gets shaved and Sticks up" but the
gentleman could not be found. Colonel
Bennett reports cattle in the Territory in
fine condition, water plentiful, grass
never better and everything serene. He
has number of fist beeves that he could
put on the market tomorrow.
Said prominent cattlemsn yesterday:
Let Fort Worth establish those large
st6Skyards THE GAZETTE is talking
about, and you will see the refriger-
stOr at work before you know it.
Lsrge stock yards here would mean
sure supply of fat cattle, and that is one
necessity in running refrigerator. The
Cattlemen who live iG Fort Worth, or
any business man in fact, should
take hold of this matter and
push it through. With large stockyards,
plenty of shelter and the railroad facilities
Fort Worth has, this city Will, for all
time to come, be the greatest live stock
market south OF Kansas City.
A writer in Country Gentleman says:
"All cattle, especially bulls ought TO be
dehOrned st three to five weeks old. 1t
is 9 very simple operation then, as the
horns do not adhere to the skull at that
time, and is not nearly so painful
IS CaStratiOn. | have begun and shall
continue, 10 diShOrn all the bulls raise
for service, and csstrate all | raise for
farm work or steers. l have dishorned
i've Jersey heifers for herd of no
horned Jerseys. l have q pair OF
jersey steers that lock exactly alike, !
and STe as smart as can be, for work |
I can teach them anything very easily, |
even to get upon half barrel. They are
three years old and weigh about $500 !
pounds. 1t costs me about one fifth less |
ID keep dishOrned cattle of the same |
weight and size that it does those with !
horns.
The Texas StOCkman and Farmer says:
Mr.. F. w. Ellis OF Banders, a gentleman
who has been interested in the goat
business for number of wears, while on
8 visit to his former home in Massa-
Chusetts last fall, took particular pains
10 inquire into everything per-
tsining to the market for goat skins In
visiting several dealers and manufactur-
ers he found that the difference in price
between Texas and South American goat
hides was about 9 ce1ts, and that this
difference was due to but two causes,
viz: Hides from the Rio Grande country
were almost invariably full of minute
no eS caused 10y cactus thorns and others
were so CarelesslY skinned that they were
frequently cut nearly through. The few
good hides, they said, that were received
from Texas were baled with these dam
aged hides and consequently they were
obliged to buy all in g lump, and the
good brought no more than the poor. Mr..
Ellis had hide with him that had been
taken of by the blowing process, and was
assured that 1t WAS worth just as much
is shy South American hide.
A Wool shipment.
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